News in Brief

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1333, 23 May 1905, Page 1

News in Brief

Empire Day to-morrow. Hob. Juinos McGowan addresses tho. Thames eleotors this evening, The Waibi South Goldmiuing Company's bore hole is down to a depth of 127 feet,

Mr Hugh Poland, chairman "of the Obinmuri County Council, has left on a visit to tho South.

The Thames Hauraki pumping plant in working splendidly. Water is kept down at the 650 ft level,

Petitions are being largely signed in Dunedin urging the City Council to tako steps to provide & crematorium,

New Zealand voluntoer long and efficient service medals have been awarded to Privates William Newman and Benjamin Lukoy, of No. 1 Thames Rifles. Ins-. .Saturday the No. 1 Ohincmuri Riflps (Ptieroa) fired for the Government medals. Sergeant Mamgay mado the top score, 49 points. Mr George Brown, of Cambridge, has bien appointed teacher of the Pacroa ■fliph School, in place of Mr Drumgool, who has gone to Stratford,

The Arbitration Court bus held that a miner is employed underground when ho is sent underground in his employer's service, though he may not ho engaged in milling operations,

The To Aroha Borough Council is oonsidoring a proposal to rate on the capital value instead of the annual value, and to collect the rate hall-yearly instead of yearly.

There is a comic elcmont in the fact

that the Japanese arc teaching the captured Russians the Russian language, and hopu before tho war is over to make then) adepts at reading and writing in their own language,

For defeating the reoont New York railway strilte, James Farley,' the professional " strilto breaker," charged tho companies IuOOO daily for five days, His daily profit is estimated at £2OOO. A London correspondent states that Miss Ada Crossley (now Mrs Mueoke) will not give up her musical coreer. She will rcsido in London with lior husband until, at all events, he bos finished his studies at the London hospitals. Tho lato Miohaol Wholan, who was killed at Snako Hill through the waggon accident, was a member of No. 1 Thames Rifles, and was accorded a military funeral to the Thames Cemetery. ■ The To Aroba News states it is understood (bat the officers of the Roman Catholic Church have purohascd the Methodist parsonage and adjoining sections, (or the \ purpose of building a chinch thereon. Within a month there has been collected

tho sum of .£2050 in cash, and definite amounts havo been promised whioh bring the total up to JE23oo—aufficiont funds, including tno Government subsidy, to inaugurate in Wellington a Homo for consumptives. The Rev. Silas Hocking, the novelist along with other ministers and laymen, numbering in all 33, appeared at the Higbgate Police Court iu connection with tho non-payment of education rates. After Dr. Rowland had made a speech, the Chairman said: "If the Act is doing harm, tho proper way would bo to try to get it rel polled." The defendants: " (Vo are. This is one way. It's not an act; it's a [ukase. It is rot," The usual orders wore made,